West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1887-12-01
THE GOSPEL OF HEALTH.
DIR. TALMAGE,s SUNDAY SERMON
A Few Timely Words IN Regard to
Spiritual Health

rExr: "Tu a dart strike through his lirer.
Proverbs, vii, 23.
There is fashion in sermonics. A com.
paratively small part of tho Bible is called on
Tor texts. Most of the passages of Scripture.
when announced at the opening of sermons,
immediately divide themselves into old dis.
ctrSsions that we have heard from boyhood,
ana the effect on us is soporiflc. The auditor
guesSSeS ut the start Just what the preacher
VIII say. There are very important chapters
ana verses that have never been preached
FROM Much OF my lifetime | am devoting
TO unlocking these gold chests and blasting
open these quarries. We talk about the
heart, aud sing about the heart, but il YOU
REFER To tho physical organ that wo call the
heart, 10 has not half so much To do with
sPirltual health or disease, moral oxaltation
or spiritual depression, as tho organ TO tho
consideration OF which Solomon calls MS IN
ths text, when he describes sin progrc ssing
TN dart strike through his liver"
,ooiomohs anatomical and physiological
discoveries were 50 very great that he was
nearly 5000 years ahead OF the scientists of
ms day. He more than 900 years before
Chr st, seemed to know about tho circulation
OIL tne blood, which Harvey discovered ,G10
years after Christ, for when Solomon i'm
Ecclesiastes, describing the human body,
speaks OF the pitcher at the fountain he evi.
uentiy means the three canals leading from
the neart that receive the blood like pitchers
when he speaks in Ecclesiastes of the silver
cord OF life, he evidently means the spinal
marrow, about which in our day Drs Mayo
ana Carpenter and Dalton, and Flint and
Srown-Sequard have experimental. And
Solomon recorded in the Bible thousands Of
years before scientists discovered it, that in
ms time the spinal cord relaxed in old age
producinS the tremors of hand and head
'Or If the silver cord be loosedp
In the text he reveals the fact TINT he had
studied that largest gland of the human sys-
TEN, the liver, not 10y the electric light of the
Iaouerh ulssectlng room, but by the dim light
OF comparatively dark age, and yet had
seen its important function i'm the God bnilt
castle OF the human body, its SELECTING and
secreting power, its curious cells. it's eIon-
gatd, branching tubes, divine workman
snip IN central, and right, and left lobe, and
the hepatic artery through which God CON
ducts the crims IN tides Oh this vital organ
Is Ike the eye OF God i'm that it never Steers
solomon knew of il and had noticed either
IN Vlvlsection or post mortem what awful at
lacks sin and dissipation make uDon IL until
with the fiat of Almighty God il bids the
pody ana soul separate, aud the one it com
inhnus 10 the grave and the other it sends 10
Judsment-a javeln Of retribution, not
giancing OIL or making slight wound, but
piercing it from side to side It'll the doTt
strike through the liver.n Galen and Uinno
crates ascribe to the liver the most of the
worlds moral depression, and the word
melancholy means black bile
preach TO you this morning tho posnel of
heaith. In taking diagnosis of the d scases
OF the soul you must also take the diagnoses
OF the diseases OF the body. AS il To recog-
ME TINS, one whole book Of the New TcSta-
msnt was written by physician. Luke was
doctor, aud he discources much OF physical
efects, and he tells of the goos Sanariton's
medication OF the wounds by pouring I'm oil
anu VINE, and recognizes hunger as a him
qTance to hearing the Gospel, so that the
300 were fed; and records the snare diet ~
the proiigal away from home, and the extin-
Euished eyesight of the beggar by the Uov
slue' ana lets us know of the hemorrhage of
nf fha I,-s.,
miraculous post-morte resuscitation And
any estimate OF the spiritual condition that
does not include a'so an estimate of the
physical condition is incomplete
flrst, let Christian people avoid the mis-
take that they are all wrong with God no
cause they suffer from depression of spirits
Many consecrated man has found his snir-
tIuaI SKY beiogged, and his hope and heaven
Dio' bd out, and himself plunged chin deem i'm
the Slough of Despond, and hiss said. nv
heart Is not right with God, and think Unjust
nave made mistake, and instead of heinz,
enid OF hight am a child of darkness. No
one can feel as gloomy as feel and he n
Christian And he has gone To his minist.r
Tor consolation, and he has collected Flayel's
books, and Cecil's books and Baxter's bools
ana read and read and read, and prayel and
PiayeI anu prayed, and wept and wept arc
MNept, and groaned and groaned and groaned
MY brother, your trouble is not with
thc heart; 1t is n gastric disorder or n re
bellion OF the liver. You need n phvsi-
- 10y tndh You 90 clergyman. IL is
not SIN that blotS out your hope of he1yen
out pile. 1t not only yellows your eyeball
ana IurS your tongue, and makes your head
hchel Dut swOOps upon your soul in OBJECTIONS
anu IoTe6odings. The devil is after YOU He
has fnlled to dcspoil your cbaracter. and no
does the next best thing for him-he rufTl.
your peace OF mind. When he saws that Won
ere not forgiven soul when lac savs fbot
you are not right with God, when he saws
that you Will never get TO heaven. he lies
on are just as sure OF heaven as thongb ,,C,,
were there already. But Satan, finding TINT
nc cannon keep you out of the promised land
OF Sanaan, has determined that the spies
shall not bring you any Of the EscboI s,,.a,,,s
beforehand, and that YOU shall have n0tLino
nut prickly rear and crab apple You are inst
rs good now under the cloud as YOU were when
you were accustomed 20 rise in the morning
pIay ana sing "Hallelujah, tits done Z"
Inward Payson, sometimes so far mn
on the mount that H. seemed as N Tho
centripetd force OF earth could no longer
hold him, sometimes through phys cal dis.
order was so far down that il seemed as il the
neither world would clutch him. Glorious
William Cowper was as COOL as cool cDuid
be, and will be love in the Christian church
ns long as IL sings his hmm beginning:
There Is a fountain filled with blood " and
ms hymn beginning: ooh, for n c!oser walk
with God" and his hymn beginning. .TVhat
-arlons hindranccs we meet - aud his HYMN
BEGINNING: God moves in a mysterious
way Yet so was he overcome Of melan-
chply, or black bile, that ID was only through
inc mistake o. tie cab driver who took him
70 wrong place, instead OF the river bank
that he did not commit suicide
spiritual condition so nightly affected by
tne physical stated What a grcat oDr,oT
tumty this gives the Christian physician Tor
ne can feel at the same time both tho pul.e OF
the body and the pulse Of tho soul. aud no
can aim mister 70 both at once aud il medi-
enc IS needed be can give that AMI III spirit
ual counsel IS needed he can give that-an
estFthiy and divine pre- 5criptiOn at the same
tlHe-and call not only the apOthecary OF
Etrsn' but the pharmacy Of heaven An
TINS is the kind Of doctor ] want ut nv LED.
Hdo when ! get sick. one that can not only
pour out the right number of drors but one
VINO can also pray. That is the KIM OF doc.
tor J. have had in my house when sickness or
aeath came. i do not want any Of your prof
hgate or athoistic doctors around my loved
ones when the balances Of life are trem
biing. A doctor who has gone through the
ineaical college, and in dsBecting room
mas Taversed the wonders Of the human
neohanism, and found no God in any OF the
hpyrnths, is "a fool, and cannot do tor me or
mine. But. oh the Christian do.tortl What
q comfort they have been in many Of our
households. And they ought 10 have n warm
place In our prayers. a. well as praise on our
tongues. Dear oil DR. Skl.manl Myfathsrs
ao'tor my mothers doctor. in the VILLAGE
nome. re carried al tho conf fences Of
az the families fourteen Du,os around
we az ieit better as soon as VIC saw him en-